title: Genetic characterization of a novel picornavirus distantly related to the marine mammal-infecting aquamaviruses in a long-distance migrant bird species, European roller (Coracias garrulus).
abstract: Despite the continuously growing number of known avian picornaviruses (family Picornaviridae), knowledge of their genetic diversity in wild birds, especially in long-distance migrant species is very limited. In this study, we report the presence of a novel picornavirus identified from one of 18 analysed faecal samples of an Afro-Palearctic migrant bird, the European roller (Coracias garrulus L., 1758), which is distantly related to the marine-mammal-infecting seal aquamavirus A1 (genus Aquamavirus). The phylogenetic analyses and the low sequence identity (P1 26.3 %, P2 25.8 % and P3 28.4 %) suggest that this picornavirus could be the founding member of a novel picornavirus genus that we have provisionally named 'Kunsagivirus', with 'Greplavirus A' (strain roller/SZAL6-KuV/2011/HUN, GenBank accession no. KC935379) as the candidate type species.
authors.affiliation: Regional Laboratory of Virology, National Reference Laboratory of Gastroenteric Viruses, ÁNTSZ Regional Institute of State Public Health Service, Pécs, Hungary.
authors.forename: Ákos
authors.initials: Á
authors.lastname: Boros
authors.affiliation: Hungarian Ornithological and Nature Conservation Society, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: Tamás
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kiss
authors.affiliation: Ecology Department, Szeged University, Közép fasor 52, Szeged, Hungary.
authors.forename: Orsolya
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kiss
authors.affiliation: Regional Laboratory of Virology, National Reference Laboratory of Gastroenteric Viruses, ÁNTSZ Regional Institute of State Public Health Service, Pécs, Hungary.
authors.forename: Péter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pankovics
authors.affiliation: Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Beatrix
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kapusinszky
authors.affiliation: University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.|Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Delwart
authors.affiliation: Regional Laboratory of Virology, National Reference Laboratory of Gastroenteric Viruses, ÁNTSZ Regional Institute of State Public Health Service, Pécs, Hungary.
authors.forename: Gábor
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Reuter
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds / Q000821:virology*; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D005243:Feces / Q000821:virology; D023061:Gene Order; D016679:Genome, Viral; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D010802:Phylogeny; D010849:Picornaviridae / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017385:Sequence Homology
chemical_list: D012367:RNA, Viral